You've made a number of statements and haven't given a single bit of evidence in support. Have you got any?
Re:Makes a little bit of sense. . .
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It's already mentioned that the focus on chest compressions leads to better perfusion of organs. The idea of fewer breaths isn't to deliver less oxygen, but rather that above a certain point, 'extra' oxygen isn't useful.
During a cardiac arrest, metabolism is very slow, and the amount of oxygen in the lungs is not depleted very rapidly. Therefore emphasis has changed to improving the oxygen delivery by increasing the blood flow, by increasing the number of compressions relative to rescue breaths.
It's the brain we worry about, not the heart
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The article has a strange focus on the '5-minute window' of oxygen deprivation to heart muscle. Heart muscle can survive and recover far beyond that 5 minutes. Clot busting drugs can be give hours after a coronary artery becomes occluded, restoring blood supply to heart cells that have been without oxygen that whole time.
It's the brain that's exquisitely sensitive to oxygen deprivation. That 5-minute window refers to irreversible brain damage that begins to occur after ischemia, not heart damage. It's also well known that brain tissue releases toxic metabolites after oxygen deprivation doing damage above and beyond what the lack of oxygen itself did. There are a number of therapies aimed at reversing or blocking this phenomenon, but none have been successful yet.
The intervention that has been shown to be most effective in changing survival outcome once someone's heart has stopped beating is good quality CPR as soon as possible. Most of these other innovations like cooling have only a minimal effect changing a dismal outcome to a not-quite-as-dismal-but-still-pretty-dismal outcome. Most of these intra and post resuscitative interventions only succeed in allowing a patient to linger in the ICU for a few extra days before finally dying.
Re:This makes sense in a lot of ways.
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Cooling the patient after a return of spontaneous circulation post cardiac arrest is standard of care after a resuscitation these days.
Mormons believe that their religion is the most true, and so do most religious groups. There are plenty of people who attend a church not because they agree on every little point of doctrine, but because they like the pastor, or because it's conveniently close, however I would still say that most people think that their own particular religion is the most true. Mormons are no exception.
The belief that people from other religions have a good shot a heaven is more inclusive than most fundamentalists, but the belief that they can't get into Heaven until a Mormon gets the paperwork right is more exclusive than most liberal theologies. There are plenty of Christian groups that believe you cannot get to Heaven without being baptized. That unfortunately means that technically, good and deserving people who were not baptized for one reason or another would be ineligible for salvation through no fault of their own. Mormons believe that you must be baptized to go to Heaven. We also believe that there is a way for every single person who ever lived to have an opportunity to be baptized. We believe that you can be baptized on behalf of a deceased person and that person (or their spirit if you will) has the opportunity to accept or reject that baptism. This means that everyone has the opportunity for baptism. Nobody will be excluded by virtue of the fact that they never had the opportunity because they happened to be born in the wrong time or place. Nothing could be more inclusive.
Just to point out some of the inaccuracies of the article that you cited.
The official Church policy is that you can only submit names of relatives to receive proxy baptism. Nevertheless, some (hopefully) well intentioned people will submit names of famous people or celebrities. This is not official Church policy and members should not be doing this. The article states that names such as 'Mickey Mouse' have been submitted. I have a very hard time believing this to be true, and if it is, it represents a malicious attempt to mock the system and certainly has nothing to do with official Church policy.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but while Mormonism gives Jesus Christ an important place, Mormon doctrine denies trinitarianism. Mormonism gives Jesus Christ the MOST important place. We don't believe in the concept of the trinity, but that in no way diminishes the role of Jesus Christ.
You have, perhaps, misunderstood what I am trying to say on this point. Mormons respect and work with other groups, and that is good and laudable. However, I was saying that Mormon doctrine rejects the beliefs of other Christian groups, not the people who are members of the groups. Mormon doctrine rejects SOME of the beliefs of other Christian groups. There are far more similarities between Mormon beliefs and Protestant or Catholic beliefs than there are differences.
"Orthodox" Christians are Trinitarian and follow the Nicene Creed. Mormons do not, therefore they are not "orthodox" Christians but heretics as defined be the universal catholic church (by this I mean the Roman Catholic Church, the Coptic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, and most Protestants).
I agree that Mormons are not "Orthodox" Christians as you've defined them. Mormons do however worship and follow Jesus Christ as their Savior, God, and Messiah. A Christian is simply a follower of Christ and Mormons follow Christ.
It's also quite interesting that you bring up the idea of heretics. There was a point in history where Protestants were viewed as heretics and were persecuted for their beliefs. Are they Christian? Obviously they are. Were they Christian? Obviously they were, but weren't accepted into the majority because their beliefs differed from the mainstream.
So Mormons are Christian pretty much in the same way that Muslims are Christian.
There is a difference between acknowledging Christ, and worshipping him. Muslims don't believe in and worship Jesus Christ as the Savior of all mankind, as the Son of God and as the only perfect man who ever lived.
Many Jews acknowledge Christ as a prophet, but they don't believe that he was the Messiah.
Some Buddhists see Christ as an 'enlightened individual'
Mormons are Christian because they worship and follow Christ. These other groups are not Christian because they neither follow nor worship Him.
I love how you turn an argument about the validity of Mormonism as a Christian establishment into a talk about how nice Mormons are. I think you do me a disservice...
I was disputing two things. I asserted that Mormons are Christians because they worship and follow Christ.
My talking about 'how nice Mormons are' was disputing the other assertion made by the parent poster that Mormons reject other groups.
That video is about Mormons, not Christians. I'm baffled whenever I see this old 'Mormons aren't Christian' chestnut brought up.
Mormons believe in and worship Jesus Christ as the Savior of all mankind, as the Son of God and as the only perfect man who ever lived.
What more does it take to be called Christian? Christians are followers of Christ and Mormons follow Christ.
Mormonism rejects most other groups as well. The claim that Mormonism rejects other groups is false.
"We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may."
Many Mormon charity and humanitarian groups work hand in hand with Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and other religious and non religious groups.
I am a Christian and a Mormon. Some of my closest friends are atheists. I work with and respect people of all faiths.
You may also wish to consider placing a security freeze on your accounts by writing to the credit bureaus. A security freeze means that your credit history cannot be seen by potential creditors, insurance companies or employers doing background checks unless you give consent.
Why isn't this automatic? Nobody should have the ability to check someone's credit without their consent. It should be the 'default' setting.
You get to a point with investigations where more isn't necessarily better. There is always a chance that a scan will show a false positive. You see what looks like a suspicious nodule in an asymptomatic patient. Now you have to do more investigations, and some investigations carry a risk. Finally they decide to biopsy the nodule to see what it is and it turns out to be benign. The end result can be a patient exposed to unnecessary radiation, surgeries and/or worries. That's why it's nice to have doctors who decide who and when to scan. 'Magic Scans' aren't the panacea they are cracked up to be.
That being said, it is incredible what technologies are doing for medicine. Some of the stuff in medical textbooks is obsolete, particularly clinical findings, because you almost never see that disease advanced to the degree that the book describes as we get better and better at finding things early.
So like the other poster said, sign up to get your screening colonoscopy today! (provided that your 50)
Cell phones are unbelievably ubiquitous in Korea. Old people have them, elementary kids have them, I've even seen homeless people with them. I never met anybody in Korea who didn't have a cell phone. It has become a way of life.
That being said, I would image that younger people are more likely to use the service.
The Koreans have been doing this for years. To promote it they gave you a discount if you used the cell phone technique.
It makes a lot of sense. It's convenient to order the tickets, also via cell phone, and then you don't have to wait in line. And everyone there has a cell phone.
Funfact: In South Korea when you buy a movie ticket, you can buy a particular seat, like at a sports game.
You have two options. One is the ATI HDTV dongle that many people have mentioned. It is only compatible with certain ATI cards and it allows you to connect to your HDTV using component cables.
Many posters have said that these converters don't work because you get wonky resolutions where a lot of the screen is chopped off. The key to this is using a program called powerstrip which allows you to custom make resolutions that will turn out well on an HDTV. There is a tutorial here. http://www.htpcnews.com/main.php?id=powerstrip_gui de_1
For great advice, reviews, and forums go to http://www.htpcnews.com/ if you want to learn more about connecting PC's to HDTV's.
The data doesn't have to be moved anywhere. As long as a technician from a US based subsidiary company has access to information, the US has the ability to force that company to reveal that information.
The big problem is the fact that the RIAA is allowed to get personal information from an ISP without so much as a warrant. If you make prank calls to me and I have call display, I have no legal way to find out where you live etc. despite the fact i can see your phone number. I must insead contact the police who will get a warrant. The RIAA needs to follow the same procedure. File a complaint with law enforcement who will then take over.
The major objection is the ease with which this well funded organization is able to get private information without due process. The law that people are referring to prerhaps is the ruling that Verizon is required to hand over private information to an organization that has no checks or balances or accountability for that matter.
The courts should then throw out every request for a warrant because there are far FAR better ways to spend the court's time and money.
Early on the only internet provider in Korea was the big Telecom company (in the dial-up modem days). The government offered financial incentives to anyone who want to offer a competing service. They would get tax breaks and big fat low interest loans. Soon everyone was using these alternate providers, so to fight back, the big telecom upgraded their own systems and servers and there has been fierce competition ever since.
The economy in S Korea is also very different from North America. Here we have many franchises ang megamarts and major utility providers that price fix everything. In Korea there actually is competition and most commodities are very cheap, because as soon as someone can offer it cheaper, they will, and everyone will switch to that new cheaper provider.
South Korea doesn't have FTTH, but it does have a very extensive braodband infrastucture. The government spent a lot of time and money investing in it and building it. The result of that is that S Korea is the most online community per capita in the world, above the US and Japan even.
You can usually choose between 6 different broadband providers there. Since there is so much competion, rates are cheap, and there are NO upload or download limits. When I try to explain the download caps we have here, my friends in Korea shake their heads and ask me why people stand for it.
Governments need to take bold steps like this because nothing will change if they don't. South Korea did it, and now they are reaping the benefits of great internet infrastructure.
From the Hacking the Tivo FAQ , here are several programs for windows.
Ligos: Windows based PTV. PowerVCR: Windows based VCR. WinVCR: Windows based VCR. SnapStream: Windows based PTV (freeware and commercial version). ShowShifter: Windows based PTV (freeware). VideoLAN is an open source, multi OS video streaming program.
If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here's How to Set It Straight What You Buy Affects Recommendations On Amazon.com, Too; Why the Cartoons?
By JEFFREY ZASLOW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn't a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean.
But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It's their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that records some programs it just assumes its owner will like, based on shows the viewer has chosen to record. A phone call the machine makes to TiVo, Inc., in San Jose, Calif., once a day provides key information. As these men learned, when TiVo thinks it has you pegged, there's just one way to change its "mind": outfox it.
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
He mentioned his TiVo tussle to a friend, who told an executive at CBS's "The King of Queens," who then wrote an episode with a My-TiVo-thinks-I'm-gay subplot.
A lot of gadgets and Web sites now feature "personalization technologies" that profile consumers by tracking what they watch, listen to or buy. The software, embedded in sites such as Amazon.com and CDNOW.com, then recommends other books, videos and music based on a customer's tastes.
The Willies
Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man." [TiVo Remote] Remote Control: Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.
Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."
His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show.
Though some users contend TiVo has sex on the brain, TiVo's general manager, Brodie Keast, explains that the box is merely "reacting to feedback you give it." Still, the machine employs algorithms -- searching several thousand key details (favorite actors, movie and TV genres) -- that leave some people wondering whether it is judging their predilections.
Mr. Karlsson, 26, says he "pre-emptively" found all the religious shows in his TV listings and used the "thumbs down" button on his remote control to tell TiVo he has no interest in them. (Giving three thumbs down is the best way to block a program.) After that, his TiVo recorded movies about creepy homicides. "They all have titles like 'Murder on Skeleton Isle,' " says the computer system administrator in Cambridge, Mass.
He uses the "thumbs" button to tell TiVo he hates such films. He also orders cooking shows, which softens TiVo's view of him. "I don't want it thinking I'm an ax murderer," he says.
Mr. Cohen, 30, has a TiVo that mysteriously assumed he wanted Korean news programs. The Philadelphia lawyer gave thumbs down to anything Korean, and his TiVo got the message. Sort of. "The next day, it recorded the Chinese news," he says.
TiVo's 500,000 subscribers use the box primarily to record programs they specifically request, and many laud its ability to pause live broadcasts and record a show's entire season. Still, in TiVo-focused online chat-rooms and in secretive admissions to one another, some say they resent being pigeonholed by TiVo's suggestions.
'A Pregnant Gay Man'
Like TiVo, other techno-profilers run hard with limited information. Ray Everett-Church of Fremont, Calif., who is gay, ordered "Queer as Folk" videos from Amazon.com. Understandably, the site began suggesting gay-related calendars and books. Then he bought a baby book for a pregnant friend. So for weeks, the site also recommended parenting books. He says it was as if Amazon.com decided he was "a pregnant gay man."
He fought back, he says, "by inundating it with additional data. I searched for other stuff -- on politics, computers -- so it would stop throwing baby books at me. Now it thinks I've abandoned the baby and I'm preparing for a career in politics."
Mr. Everett-Church, a privacy consultant for businesses, predicts that as techno-profiling increases, more people will purposely muck up their profiles. They'll fear ordering books on mental illnesses or sexual preferences because they'll wonder if they'll somehow be publicly identified.
All techno-profiling companies contacted for this article said that information gleaned is for the customer's personal use only. Still, even Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos knows the potential mortification factor.
For a live demonstration before an audience of 500 people, Mr. Bezos once logged onto Amazon.com (amazon.com) to show how it caters to his interests. The top recommendation it gave him? The DVD for "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity." That popped up because he had previously ordered "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda, a spokesman explains.
Dawn Freeman, 23, a tax analyst in Lexington, Ky., has bought lowbrow videos, such as "American Pie," from Amazon.com. But she was aghast when the site suggested Tom Green's gross-out performance in "Road Trip."
"I thought, 'I know I don't like high cinema, but have I really reached the point where I'd like to watch Tom Green lick a mouse?" To even out her Amazon profile, she went through the site finding "witty independent films."
Her TiVo also thinks she's a sophomoric-humor-loving 12-year-old, she says. It keeps giving her cartoons. "I know it's dumb to take it personally, but it's in your face. These are supposedly objective computers saying, 'This is what we think of you.' "
Dissing Ice Cube
A.J. Meyer, a 35-year-old Web site developer in Minneapolis, ordered the DVD for "Scarface," the Al Pacino gangster movie, from Netflix.com (netflix.com). After that, the site kept recommending movies about gangster rappers. He stopped the assault by giving negative ratings to all movies starring Ice Cube. (Netflix allows members to rate any of its 12,000-plus titles with one to five stars -- whether they have rented a film or not. That helps the site calculate future recommendations.)
After Mr. Meyer ordered a documentary about New York from Amazon.com, it pitched him countless documentaries -- even one on the history of the thimble. He stopped the Ken Burnsification of his profile by searching the site for plasma TVs. "That way, I identified myself as a high-tech guy," he says. "The thimble is more low tech."
Virginia Heffernan, TV columnist for Slate.com, doesn't understand why some people are resistant to techno-profiling, or find it creepy. She didn't look for any deep meaning when her TiVo kept giving her TV shows in Polish. And after buying self-help books on Amazon.com, she accepted that every time she logged on, the site pitched products to make her a more self-fulfilled human being.
"I like the idea that someone cares," she says. "Even a machine."
TiVo users can program the machine to skip certain channels entirely. But many users don't bother to figure out how to do it, or are too intrigued by TiVo's recommendation process, says a spokesman. TiVo is paid to promote programs and products it calls "advertainment" on a special screen. But the company says none of these are given to users as suggestions.
Some people have given up trying to manipulate personalization technologies. Dino Leon, a hair-salon owner in Birmingham, Mich., says his TiVo quickly figured out that he and his partner were gay. They were OK with that, but just for fun, they tried to confuse the software by punching in "redneck" programs, like Jerry Springer's talk show.
TiVo wasn't fooled, and kept recording gay shows. Mr. Leon believes the box was giving them a message: "You're definitely gay. And you're watching too much TV."
I shelled out big bucks for my "desktop replacement" Toshiba satellite 5000 which has a desktop PIII 1000GHz chip. Unfortunately, the processor runs so hot that it constantly overheated and powered down. The BIOS "fix" clocks down the CPU when it gets hot (which is always) so it doesn't shut down spontaneously any more, but now I have a VERY expensive pentium two equivalent. When you apply the BIOS fix it changes the BIOS so that the install disks which contain the gimped version of your Win OS won't unstall on the "unrecognized laptop" until you take it in to an authorized dealer.
Not to mention that this laptop doesn't even have a standard bios that you can configure. It's some wierd proprietary thing that lets you make a password and select boot priority and that's it.
The sound is problematic too because it runs through ACPI, which is fine for windows, but very difficult if you want to run linux. So for the one in four linux distros that can actually boot up on this laptop, so far none of them have sound that works.
Toshiba won't do a thing to help you when you get these headaches. I would stay away from buying a brand new laptop until you can do a little research to see what sort of problems will crop up.
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You've made a number of statements and haven't given a single bit of evidence in support. Have you got any?
It's already mentioned that the focus on chest compressions leads to better perfusion of organs. The idea of fewer breaths isn't to deliver less oxygen, but rather that above a certain point, 'extra' oxygen isn't useful.
During a cardiac arrest, metabolism is very slow, and the amount of oxygen in the lungs is not depleted very rapidly. Therefore emphasis has changed to improving the oxygen delivery by increasing the blood flow, by increasing the number of compressions relative to rescue breaths.
The article has a strange focus on the '5-minute window' of oxygen deprivation to heart muscle. Heart muscle can survive and recover far beyond that 5 minutes. Clot busting drugs can be give hours after a coronary artery becomes occluded, restoring blood supply to heart cells that have been without oxygen that whole time.
It's the brain that's exquisitely sensitive to oxygen deprivation. That 5-minute window refers to irreversible brain damage that begins to occur after ischemia, not heart damage. It's also well known that brain tissue releases toxic metabolites after oxygen deprivation doing damage above and beyond what the lack of oxygen itself did. There are a number of therapies aimed at reversing or blocking this phenomenon, but none have been successful yet.
The intervention that has been shown to be most effective in changing survival outcome once someone's heart has stopped beating is good quality CPR as soon as possible. Most of these other innovations like cooling have only a minimal effect changing a dismal outcome to a not-quite-as-dismal-but-still-pretty-dismal outcome. Most of these intra and post resuscitative interventions only succeed in allowing a patient to linger in the ICU for a few extra days before finally dying.
Cooling the patient after a return of spontaneous circulation post cardiac arrest is standard of care after a resuscitation these days.
Just to point out some of the inaccuracies of the article that you cited.
The official Church policy is that you can only submit names of relatives to receive proxy baptism. Nevertheless, some (hopefully) well intentioned people will submit names of famous people or celebrities. This is not official Church policy and members should not be doing this. The article states that names such as 'Mickey Mouse' have been submitted. I have a very hard time believing this to be true, and if it is, it represents a malicious attempt to mock the system and certainly has nothing to do with official Church policy.
"Orthodox" Christians are Trinitarian and follow the Nicene Creed. Mormons do not, therefore they are not "orthodox" Christians but heretics as defined be the universal catholic church (by this I mean the Roman Catholic Church, the Coptic Church, the Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church, and most Protestants).
I agree that Mormons are not "Orthodox" Christians as you've defined them. Mormons do however worship and follow Jesus Christ as their Savior, God, and Messiah. A Christian is simply a follower of Christ and Mormons follow Christ.
It's also quite interesting that you bring up the idea of heretics. There was a point in history where Protestants were viewed as heretics and were persecuted for their beliefs. Are they Christian? Obviously they are. Were they Christian? Obviously they were, but weren't accepted into the majority because their beliefs differed from the mainstream.
So Mormons are Christian pretty much in the same way that Muslims are Christian.
There is a difference between acknowledging Christ, and worshipping him. Muslims don't believe in and worship Jesus Christ as the Savior of all mankind, as the Son of God and as the only perfect man who ever lived.
Many Jews acknowledge Christ as a prophet, but they don't believe that he was the Messiah.
Some Buddhists see Christ as an 'enlightened individual'
Mormons are Christian because they worship and follow Christ. These other groups are not Christian because they neither follow nor worship Him.
I was disputing two things. I asserted that Mormons are Christians because they worship and follow Christ.
My talking about 'how nice Mormons are' was disputing the other assertion made by the parent poster that Mormons reject other groups.
Mormons believe in and worship Jesus Christ as the Savior of all mankind, as the Son of God and as the only perfect man who ever lived.
What more does it take to be called Christian? Christians are followers of Christ and Mormons follow Christ. Mormonism rejects most other groups as well. The claim that Mormonism rejects other groups is false.
From the Articles of Faith :
"We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may."
Many Mormon charity and humanitarian groups work hand in hand with Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and other religious and non religious groups.
I am a Christian and a Mormon. Some of my closest friends are atheists. I work with and respect people of all faiths.
You may also wish to consider placing a security freeze on your accounts by writing to the credit bureaus. A security freeze means that your credit history cannot be seen by potential creditors, insurance companies or employers doing background checks unless you give consent.
Why isn't this automatic? Nobody should have the ability to check someone's credit without their consent. It should be the 'default' setting.
You get to a point with investigations where more isn't necessarily better. There is always a chance that a scan will show a false positive. You see what looks like a suspicious nodule in an asymptomatic patient. Now you have to do more investigations, and some investigations carry a risk. Finally they decide to biopsy the nodule to see what it is and it turns out to be benign. The end result can be a patient exposed to unnecessary radiation, surgeries and/or worries. That's why it's nice to have doctors who decide who and when to scan. 'Magic Scans' aren't the panacea they are cracked up to be.
That being said, it is incredible what technologies are doing for medicine. Some of the stuff in medical textbooks is obsolete, particularly clinical findings, because you almost never see that disease advanced to the degree that the book describes as we get better and better at finding things early.
So like the other poster said, sign up to get your screening colonoscopy today! (provided that your 50)
Cell phones are unbelievably ubiquitous in Korea. Old people have them, elementary kids have them, I've even seen homeless people with them. I never met anybody in Korea who didn't have a cell phone. It has become a way of life.
That being said, I would image that younger people are more likely to use the service.
The Koreans have been doing this for years. To promote it they gave you a discount if you used the cell phone technique.
It makes a lot of sense. It's convenient to order the tickets, also via cell phone, and then you don't have to wait in line. And everyone there has a cell phone.
Funfact: In South Korea when you buy a movie ticket, you can buy a particular seat, like at a sports game.
The same way that academic journals work. An institution pays a huge fee and all the patrons get access.
You have two options. One is the ATI HDTV dongle that many people have mentioned. It is only compatible with certain ATI cards and it allows you to connect to your HDTV using component cables.
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The other option is a transcoder that can be used with any graphics card but is a little more expensive. There is a review of both here http://www.htpcnews.com/main.php?id=transcoder_1
Many posters have said that these converters don't work because you get wonky resolutions where a lot of the screen is chopped off. The key to this is using a program called powerstrip which allows you to custom make resolutions that will turn out well on an HDTV. There is a tutorial here. http://www.htpcnews.com/main.php?id=powerstrip_gu
For great advice, reviews, and forums go to http://www.htpcnews.com/ if you want to learn more about connecting PC's to HDTV's.
The data doesn't have to be moved anywhere. As long as a technician from a US based subsidiary company has access to information, the US has the ability to force that company to reveal that information.
The big problem is the fact that the RIAA is allowed to get personal information from an ISP without so much as a warrant. If you make prank calls to me and I have call display, I have no legal way to find out where you live etc. despite the fact i can see your phone number. I must insead contact the police who will get a warrant. The RIAA needs to follow the same procedure. File a complaint with law enforcement who will then take over.
The major objection is the ease with which this well funded organization is able to get private information without due process. The law that people are referring to prerhaps is the ruling that Verizon is required to hand over private information to an organization that has no checks or balances or accountability for that matter.
The courts should then throw out every request for a warrant because there are far FAR better ways to spend the court's time and money.
Or perhaps their religion has nothing to do with it...
Please share some of these "very compelling arguments."
Early on the only internet provider in Korea was the big Telecom company (in the dial-up modem days). The government offered financial incentives to anyone who want to offer a competing service. They would get tax breaks and big fat low interest loans. Soon everyone was using these alternate providers, so to fight back, the big telecom upgraded their own systems and servers and there has been fierce competition ever since.
The economy in S Korea is also very different from North America. Here we have many franchises ang megamarts and major utility providers that price fix everything. In Korea there actually is competition and most commodities are very cheap, because as soon as someone can offer it cheaper, they will, and everyone will switch to that new cheaper provider.
South Korea doesn't have FTTH, but it does have a very extensive braodband infrastucture. The government spent a lot of time and money investing in it and building it. The result of that is that S Korea is the most online community per capita in the world, above the US and Japan even.
You can usually choose between 6 different broadband providers there. Since there is so much competion, rates are cheap, and there are NO upload or download limits. When I try to explain the download caps we have here, my friends in Korea shake their heads and ask me why people stand for it.
Governments need to take bold steps like this because nothing will change if they don't. South Korea did it, and now they are reaping the benefits of great internet infrastructure.
From the Hacking the Tivo FAQ , here are several programs for windows.
Ligos: Windows based PTV.
PowerVCR: Windows based VCR.
WinVCR: Windows based VCR.
SnapStream: Windows based PTV (freeware and commercial version).
ShowShifter: Windows based PTV (freeware).
VideoLAN is an open source, multi OS video streaming program.
If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay,
Here's How to Set It Straight
What You Buy Affects Recommendations
On Amazon.com, Too; Why the Cartoons?
By JEFFREY ZASLOW
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Basil Iwanyk is not a neo-Nazi. Lukas Karlsson isn't a shadowy stalker. David S. Cohen is not Korean.
But all of them live with a machine that seems intent on giving them such labels. It's their TiVo, the digital videorecorder that records some programs it just assumes its owner will like, based on shows the viewer has chosen to record. A phone call the machine makes to TiVo, Inc., in San Jose, Calif., once a day provides key information. As these men learned, when TiVo thinks it has you pegged, there's just one way to change its "mind": outfox it.
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
He mentioned his TiVo tussle to a friend, who told an executive at CBS's "The King of Queens," who then wrote an episode with a My-TiVo-thinks-I'm-gay subplot.
A lot of gadgets and Web sites now feature "personalization technologies" that profile consumers by tracking what they watch, listen to or buy. The software, embedded in sites such as Amazon.com and CDNOW.com, then recommends other books, videos and music based on a customer's tastes.
The Willies
Many consumers appreciate having computers delve into their hearts and heads. But some say it gives them the willies, because the machines either know them too well or make cocksure assumptions about them that are way off base. That's why even TiVo lovers are tempted to hoodwink it -- a phenomenon that was also spoofed this year on another TV show, HBO's "The Mind of the Married Man."
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Remote Control: Viewers help TiVo understand their tastes by giving TV shows thumbs up or down.
Mike Binder, creator and star of that show, had set his home TiVo to record his 1999 movie, "The Sex Monster," about a man whose wife becomes bisexual. After that, Mr. Binder's TiVo assumed he would enjoy a steady stream of gay programming. Unnerved, he counteracted the onslaught by recording the Playboy Channel and MTV's spring break bikini coverage. It worked, he says. "My TiVo doesn't look at me funny anymore."
His wife, however, was taken aback when she saw all the half-naked women he was ordering through TiVo. He told her those women meant nothing to him: "I'm just counterprogramming because TiVo thinks I'm gay." She was unamused. The incident inspired an episode of his show.
Though some users contend TiVo has sex on the brain, TiVo's general manager, Brodie Keast, explains that the box is merely "reacting to feedback you give it." Still, the machine employs algorithms -- searching several thousand key details (favorite actors, movie and TV genres) -- that leave some people wondering whether it is judging their predilections.
Mr. Karlsson, 26, says he "pre-emptively" found all the religious shows in his TV listings and used the "thumbs down" button on his remote control to tell TiVo he has no interest in them. (Giving three thumbs down is the best way to block a program.) After that, his TiVo recorded movies about creepy homicides. "They all have titles like 'Murder on Skeleton Isle,' " says the computer system administrator in Cambridge, Mass.
He uses the "thumbs" button to tell TiVo he hates such films. He also orders cooking shows, which softens TiVo's view of him. "I don't want it thinking I'm an ax murderer," he says.
Mr. Cohen, 30, has a TiVo that mysteriously assumed he wanted Korean news programs. The Philadelphia lawyer gave thumbs down to anything Korean, and his TiVo got the message. Sort of. "The next day, it recorded the Chinese news," he says.
TiVo's 500,000 subscribers use the box primarily to record programs they specifically request, and many laud its ability to pause live broadcasts and record a show's entire season. Still, in TiVo-focused online chat-rooms and in secretive admissions to one another, some say they resent being pigeonholed by TiVo's suggestions.
'A Pregnant Gay Man'
Like TiVo, other techno-profilers run hard with limited information. Ray Everett-Church of Fremont, Calif., who is gay, ordered "Queer as Folk" videos from Amazon.com. Understandably, the site began suggesting gay-related calendars and books. Then he bought a baby book for a pregnant friend. So for weeks, the site also recommended parenting books. He says it was as if Amazon.com decided he was "a pregnant gay man."
He fought back, he says, "by inundating it with additional data. I searched for other stuff -- on politics, computers -- so it would stop throwing baby books at me. Now it thinks I've abandoned the baby and I'm preparing for a career in politics."
Mr. Everett-Church, a privacy consultant for businesses, predicts that as techno-profiling increases, more people will purposely muck up their profiles. They'll fear ordering books on mental illnesses or sexual preferences because they'll wonder if they'll somehow be publicly identified.
All techno-profiling companies contacted for this article said that information gleaned is for the customer's personal use only. Still, even Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos knows the potential mortification factor.
For a live demonstration before an audience of 500 people, Mr. Bezos once logged onto Amazon.com (amazon.com) to show how it caters to his interests. The top recommendation it gave him? The DVD for "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity." That popped up because he had previously ordered "Barbarella," starring Jane Fonda, a spokesman explains.
Dawn Freeman, 23, a tax analyst in Lexington, Ky., has bought lowbrow videos, such as "American Pie," from Amazon.com. But she was aghast when the site suggested Tom Green's gross-out performance in "Road Trip."
"I thought, 'I know I don't like high cinema, but have I really reached the point where I'd like to watch Tom Green lick a mouse?" To even out her Amazon profile, she went through the site finding "witty independent films."
Her TiVo also thinks she's a sophomoric-humor-loving 12-year-old, she says. It keeps giving her cartoons. "I know it's dumb to take it personally, but it's in your face. These are supposedly objective computers saying, 'This is what we think of you.' "
Dissing Ice Cube
A.J. Meyer, a 35-year-old Web site developer in Minneapolis, ordered the DVD for "Scarface," the Al Pacino gangster movie, from Netflix.com (netflix.com). After that, the site kept recommending movies about gangster rappers. He stopped the assault by giving negative ratings to all movies starring Ice Cube. (Netflix allows members to rate any of its 12,000-plus titles with one to five stars -- whether they have rented a film or not. That helps the site calculate future recommendations.)
After Mr. Meyer ordered a documentary about New York from Amazon.com, it pitched him countless documentaries -- even one on the history of the thimble. He stopped the Ken Burnsification of his profile by searching the site for plasma TVs. "That way, I identified myself as a high-tech guy," he says. "The thimble is more low tech."
Virginia Heffernan, TV columnist for Slate.com, doesn't understand why some people are resistant to techno-profiling, or find it creepy. She didn't look for any deep meaning when her TiVo kept giving her TV shows in Polish. And after buying self-help books on Amazon.com, she accepted that every time she logged on, the site pitched products to make her a more self-fulfilled human being.
"I like the idea that someone cares," she says. "Even a machine."
TiVo users can program the machine to skip certain channels entirely. But many users don't bother to figure out how to do it, or are too intrigued by TiVo's recommendation process, says a spokesman. TiVo is paid to promote programs and products it calls "advertainment" on a special screen. But the company says none of these are given to users as suggestions.
Some people have given up trying to manipulate personalization technologies. Dino Leon, a hair-salon owner in Birmingham, Mich., says his TiVo quickly figured out that he and his partner were gay. They were OK with that, but just for fun, they tried to confuse the software by punching in "redneck" programs, like Jerry Springer's talk show.
TiVo wasn't fooled, and kept recording gay shows. Mr. Leon believes the box was giving them a message: "You're definitely gay. And you're watching too much TV."
Write to Jeffrey Zaslow at jeffrey.zaslow@wsj.com
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